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POUR6MEDIA SJT VOUF POWER MAYORS V3
On the CNews set, MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (DLF) believes that the power of mayors is co-opted by the administration. What about it? Franceinfo’s “true or false” unit investigated. – (franceinfo)
On the CNews set, MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (DLF) believes that the power of mayors is co-opted by the administration. What about it? Franceinfo’s “true or false” unit investigated.
A Congress of Mayors, but for what purpose? This is the question asked by some elected officials, who denounce a loss of power at the municipal level. “We have created large communities of municipalities with bureaucratic structures. These are civil servants who direct this are no longer the mayors”, assures Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Debout la France deputy, on CNews. Is it true ? The parliamentarian refers to the transfer of skills from the mayor to intermunicipalities since the end of the 2000s. The territorial reform of 2010, for example, requires each municipality to join a public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation (EPCI).
“A relatively bloated administration”
These EPCI then recovered certain powers from the mayor, in addition to relying more on the administration. “Obviously, when you have to manage such large structures, you bureaucratize. The president of the interco cannot manage everything and needs a relatively bloated administration. (…) It is true that these decentralization reforms have led to power being distanced from the citizen” explains Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law.
THE mayors are-they reduced to the function of Émarital status ? This is excessive, because the mayor combines two functions: the role of state agent and that of executive of the municipality. He is head of the municipal administration responsible for police powers. He prepares and executes the decisions of a municipal Council.
